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For Thailand's Thaksin, a warm yet wary welcome.(WORLD)(Thaksin Shinawatra)
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Byline: Daniel Ten Kate Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned to Thailand Thursday for the first time since a September 2006 coup. The move was a show of strength, two months after his allies won parliamentary elections.
About 4,000 jubilant supporters greeted Mr. Thaksin at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport, where he emotionally knelt down and touched his forehead to the ground with his hands pressed together in a Buddhist wai, a prayer-like gesture. The former prime minister waved to ...
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